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“Well it’s about time,” I said to myself when this one landed on my desk. For all of Mercedes-Benz’s vaunted and well-deserved engineering acumen, they are, in a lot of ways, a very conservative company. Mercedes-Benz is all about engineering. Always have been, always will be. If you could boil down the company to three words, it would be these: “It will work.” While others had no problem making gloriously fast and beautiful cars that stopped working in half a block, Mercedes-Benz contented themselves with making cars that would dial back on the beauty and the speed in pursuit of never letting the customer down.
Mercedes-Benz never really stepped up to the big time, or at least never did so in any meaningful way, when it came to company flagships. Sure, they’d turn out the occasional limited run of track cars with license plates to satisfy Le Mans rules makers, but, over the years, when it came to halo cars, all Mercedes-Benz had to offer was boulevard cruisers like the modern SLs and such. But now, thanks to the Mercedes-AMG Project ONE Show Car, all that has seriously changed. Show Business
Okay, first off, let’s just deal with that appended “Show Car” in that name. That is, most likely, Mercedes-AMG giving itself some wiggle room in what we see here, versus what we will see on the road, hopefully in the not too distant future. And, truth be told, Mercedes-A...